Smooth

Liner Notes

I wrote this song to piss off my drummers. Those who usually go "Let's add a measure here, and then you play on 2,3,7,8 and then everyone stops on 9 and we go back into that 7/8 bit". Now I'm like "You play boom tchak boom tchak and nothing else, motherfucker" and then they be like "But we don't play that song" and then I wake up, but hey, I have made a song that I like.

I went for a dry Lo-Fi sound for this and I am happy it sounds like I wanted it to.
Fun fact: I play the same lead guitar line like in the solo in "Cape" which I stole from Brand New anyway, ironically from a song called "You Stole".
Other fun fact: I had no idea what to sing about, even after I got assigned the song title in the #notacover challenge. So I took some lines from the gibberish that I sung when I captured the idea on my phone and mixed in some idioms. I love English idioms, your language is so rich of them. But I still can't say what the song is about. i just needed words to sing and sound fine.
If you have a better suggestion for lyrics to go with the melody, let me know, I'm open to sing them again.

Lyrics

You know it's just a matter of days
The scarecrows scared the crows away
Different tales to relay
So smooth

You know it's just a matter of time
waiting for the stars to align
waiting for the thread to unwind
So smooth

And the we see it's gonna go down
Nothing's gonna stop us now
Ready to die with the sound
Right now
Everything is going smooth
The chickens come home to roost
Calm yourself and let it loose
Let it loose

You know it's just a matter of days
or just another week away
this fire is here to stay
So smooth

You know it's just a matter of months
We enter the penultimate run
We're here until the cows start to come
come home

And then we watch it crumbling away
the sparks give birth to a flame
A fire that cannot be tamed
Or erased

I love the lyrics - sensible nonsense! (Seems to make some sense to me, but I was just thinking this morning I want to give a go at writing lyrics just for the sound of the words.)
And the guitar solo shreds - always wished I could do that. Nice guitar work throughout, in fact.
Really cool melodic metal sound you create here - I dig it a lot.

In their nonsense the lyrics make some sort of sense. I listened to a lot of Dylan in my youth so I don't need literal, linear lyrics. The instrumental is very cool. Definitely a Euro vibe. All in all a good listen and a fine piece of work.

I like the contrast between verse and chorus, great sound! I have whole lists of English idioms (when I hear a nice one on the TV I write it down), just throwing some of them together to make a lyric is an interesting idea.

You definitely captured all the grungy weirdness of 90's indie rock. Nicely done! I've always liked that dry sound. I think the lyrics work great. Excellent work on the instrumentation and delivery. Nice tune!

'90's Indie Rock. Love it. The words work very well, calling upon cultural norms with the use of idioms. That's brilliant! And those guitars are so wonderfully fuzzy and dense. Wow! This was a great ride!

Oh, this is so awesomely '90s, I'm totally in love with it. Sounds great! And some of my favorite songs of the era have totally incomprehensible lyrics, so I think the words are right on point. Good job!